 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 страници
...side. Flecnoe addressing Shadwell, says : " Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dullness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity, The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 страници
...upon him through Shadwell by introducing him into his ' Mac Flecknoe' in these lines : — " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." This is severe enough ; but Rochester has affirmed that " if Shadwell had burnt all he wrote, and printed... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 292 страници
...abject of bards, he makes Dulness say : — " Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity ; The rest to some faint meaning...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Pope was a follower of Dryden's, and formed himself upon him : it was Dryden who gave to that English... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 316 страници
...abject of bards, he makes Dulness say : — " Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity ; The rest to some faint meaning...pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." Pope was a follower of Dryden's, and formed himself upon him : it was Dryden who gave to that English... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 318 страници
...he Should only rule, who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years; Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 страници
...he had already been crowned as " King of Dullness," in MacFlecknoe, and palsied by such lines as : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. We all lend a crowbar now to pluck this excellent comic writer out of his unenviable throne, but he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 страници
...an antipathy to Shadwell; of which he has given proof in his Mac-Flecknoe, where he says, " Others to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense." But all we learn hence is, that a satirist does not pay regard to truth when it interferes with the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 страници
...Should only rule^jgbe-aiost resembles me."^ Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years : Shadwell alone, of all my...sons, is he Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. 1 ' Mac Flecknoe : ' Richard Flecknoe, from whom this poem derives its name, was an Irish priest, and... | |
 | James Hannay - 1855 - 250 страници
...abject of bards, he makes Dulness Bay : — " Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity ; The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.'1 Pope was a follower of Dryden's, and formed himself upon him : it was Dryden who gave to that... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 страници
...Mature in dulness from his tender years : Shadwell, alone, of all my sons, is he, Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates1 into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval... | |
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The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. 
